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Hola To Spain at the IFFI Fiesta!
Carlos Saura to be Honoured with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd International Film Festival Of India
#IFFIWOOD, 17th November 2022
Spain and Goa have many a thing in common. From spectacular sun-kissed beaches, delectable gastronomical experiences to a penchant for laid-back siestas. This November, the two places have another occasion to celebrate each other. The 53rd International Film Festival of India , held in Goa between 20th to 28th November 2022, will be honouring Spanish film director Carlos Saura with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement award. The festival will also be showcasing some of the Director’s best films in the section titled ‘Retrospectives’.
Carlos Saura to be honored with Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award
Films are one of the most powerful mediums of expressing human emotion. Carlos Saura’s films are known world over for the poignancy with which they depict these emotions against the backdrop of the struggles of Spanish society as the country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy. Saura started his career in photography and also went on to study industrial engineering. However, he soon made his mark as a filmmaker on the global stage and his third film La Caza won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. His movies that came thereafter, such as Deprisa Deprisa, Carmen, Taxi, Tango and many others have earned him a host of prestigious awards and nominations including those at the Oscars and the Cannes Film Festival. His cinematic brilliance lies in creating sophisticated expressions of time and space where often reality and fantasy are deliberately fused together in a complex narrative. Carlos Saura is most definitely loved by critics and film buffs not only in Spain but the world over for his creative genius. The 53rd edition of IFFI will be honouring him by screening 8 of his select films namely – 7th Day, Anna and the Wolves, Peppermint Frappe, Carmen, Cria Cuervos, Iberia, La Caza and The Walls Can Talk – in the segment titled ‘Retrospectives.’
Carlos Saura
Poster – The Hunt Poster - Carmen
However, Spanish presence in the festival is not limited to just this towering personality. 7 contemporary Spanish films are waiting to dazzle delegates at the Festival. These include La Pietà by Eduardo Casanova, Manticore by Carlos Vermut, Prison 77 by Alberto Rodríguez, Alcarràs by Carla Simón , Stories Not To Be Told by Cesc Gay, Pacification by Albert Serra  and Venus  by Jaume Balagueró. Catch all this and more as the IFFI 53 fiesta says Hola  to Spain.
Still from ‘Alcarràs’
Still from ‘Prison -77’ Still from ‘Manticore’
About IFFI
The International Film Festival of India , founded in 1952, is among Asia’s most prominent film festivals. The idea of the International Film Festival of India is to celebrate films, the stories they tell and the people behind them. By doing so, we seek to nurture, promote and spread the enlightened appreciation and ardent love for films - far, wide and deep; to build bridges of love, understanding and fraternity among peoples; and to inspire them to scale new peaks of individual and collective excellence.
The festival is conducted every year by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India in collaboration with the Entertainment Society of Goa, Government of Goa, the host state. All relevant updates of 53rd IFFI can be obtained on the festival website www.iffigoa.org, on PIB website , social media accounts of IFFI on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and also on social media handles of PIB Goa. Stay tuned, let us keep drinking copiously from the cup of cinematic celebration…and also sharing the joy of it.